Sunday, March 19, 2017

All The World Is Green. Blood Money.

I fell into the oceanWhen you became my wifeI risked it all against the seaTo have a better lifeMarie you are the wild blue skyMen do foolish thingsYou turn kings into beggarsAnd beggars into kings

Pretend that you owe me nothingAnd all the world is greenWe can bring back the old days againWhen all the world is green

The face forgives the mirrorThe worm forgives the plowThe questions begs the answerCan you forgive me somehow?Maybe when our story's overWe'll go where it's always springThe band is playing our song againAnd all the world is green

Pretend that you owe me nothingAnd all the world is greenCan we bring back the old days again?And all the world is green

The moon is yellow silverOn the things that summer bringsIt's a love you'd kill forAnd all the world is greenHe's balancing a diamondOn a blade of grassThe dew will settle on our gravesWhen all the world is green

Pretend that you owe me nothingAnd all the world is greenWe can bring back the old days againWhen all the world is green

He's balancing a diamondOn a blade of grassThe dew will settle on our gravesWhen all the world is green.

"All The World Is Green" from 2002 album: Blood Money.Blood Money is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on the ANTI- label.

The album contains songs written for the play Woyzeck, based on the play of the same name by Georg Büchner. The theatrical adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, with whom Waits had worked on two previous plays: The Black Rider and Alice, both of which resulted in soundtrack albums. The latter was released simultaneously in 2002 with Blood Money. The play premiered at the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen in November 2000.

The song "God's Away on Business" featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005).

This album ranked at #18 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002.

Tom Waits has said: "I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth." When it comes to the material on Blood Money...

"All the World Is Green," is a paean of love from the soldier to his wife.

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits was born December 7, 1949 at Park Avenue Hospital in Pomona, California, the son of Alma Fern (née Johnson) McMurray and Jesse Frank Waits, both schoolteachers. His father was of Scots-Irish descent and his mother was of Norwegian ancestry. Is an American singer - songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.

Waits' lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places - although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", performed by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Waits lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and three children.﻿